If you loved This Must Be the Place, try Parthenope

A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.

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This Must Be the Place

2011 · dir. Paolo Sorrentino

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Both films are directed by Paolo Sorrentino, and they sit in Drama territory. If that's the register that drew you to This Must Be the Place, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

What Parthenope is

Amarcord if its subject were a woman. Parthenope's beauty draws a crowd in midcentury Naples, but she remains unknowable to all, including herself. Sorrentino directs his gaze toward feminine mystery.

If you loved This Must Be the Place, try Parthenope

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If you loved This Must Be the Place, try Parthenope

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